The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last week, died of his injuries late Wednesday night.

But those forests are burning up. Global carbon emissions from forest fires have increased 60 percent since 2001, according to a new study published Thursday. “We had to check the calculations ...

SUMMIT LAKE, MI - A fire burning in a remote part of the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has spread from about 5 acres when it was first spotted by a pilot last Friday to at ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in ...

Fire emissions have almost tripled from those forests during the past 20 years, the authors of the report said. The study attributed rising emissions from burning forests to a combination of more ...

Cool and wet weather has opened the door for the Deschutes and Ochoco national forests to begin pile burning efforts as a way to reduce fuels. Piles of trees and woody debris will be burned based ...

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue said they had reports of debris burning in Seffner, Brandon, and Plant City. Todd Chlanda with the Florida Forest Service said yard debris burning is allowed in ...

It was smaller than the three others burning in New Jersey, each of which had burned less than a square mile as of late Thursday. So far in 2024, the NJ Forest Fire Service said it has responded ...

Firefighters on Sunday were still battling a northern New Jersey forest fire about 40 miles west of New York City that began burning the day before, state officials said. As of Sunday, the blaze ...

A multi-acre wildfire is burning in a section of a state forest in Burlington County on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. The fire ignited in the area of Mary Ann Forge Road in Brendan T.

MINNEAPOLIS — A wildfire burning in eastern Minnesota has forced the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to close around 4,500 acres of a state forest. The department says they're closing ...